SoC #6
January 30th, 2009
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- Running at 10pm in NYC is really pleasant with very few people out
- that is during the summers
- in the winters it seems that is when most of the dogs get their last walk of the night
- its tough to run fast and not tick off one or more of them
- luckily our founding fathers, the ones that commissioned Olmstead
- had the foresight to create Central Park
- which still has dogs off leash at that time
- but they don’t seem to care about me huffing and puffing up some hills
- (they might pity me at that exact moment)
- as I’m so close to myocardial infarction anyway
- fartleks with speedwork up hills and catching my breathe downhill
- that will cure any thoughts about sitting too much
- as I sat on a bus back from AC for 5 hours because two trucks chose to crash into each other inside the Lincoln Tunnel
- Although any negative moment can have its silver lining
- as it was an interesting sociological observation absorbing all the passenger reactions.
- which reminds me of the science of shopping
- a fascinating book about our attitudes and perceptions within retail
- there probably is a transportation or travel equivalent
- I’ve yet to come across
- but considering 50,000 books are written each year
- the science of peoples reactions to travel probably exists
- back to running, I still get a rush when the runners world magazine shows up in the mail
- there was an interesting article about length of workout and immune weakening
- so I may keep my runs to 75 minutes and shorter during flu/cold seasons
- also another article about strengthening the core to help ease repetitive stress injuries
- something about proper alignment of the pelvis
- allowing stronger, surer foot falls
- kinda makes sense, but having difficulty adding these routines to daily workouts, but have to find a way otherwise plateauing will occur.
- that beach and ocean was pretty
- almost free vacations aren’t bad either
